Ken Danby: Five Decades, an exhibition honouring the Guelph-area artist ten years after his death is now on at the Guelph Civic Museum.
Danby is widely recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished realist artists, museum officials state.
This exhibition features his portraits, landscapes, and iconic Canadian imagery including studies for the Wayne Gretzky portrait, The Great Farewell, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls and Guelph Carousel.
The diversity of Danby’s talent is showcased through his artworks dating from the 1960s.
“Ken Danby helped to express our national psyche by celebrating our national game, our famous landscapes and promoting preservation of heritage buildings through his own example of restoring Armstrong’s mill as his home and studio,” said Judith Nasby, curator emerita at the Art Gallery of Guelph and guest curator of the exhibition.
Ken Danby: Five Decades will be on display at Guelph Civic Museum until January 15.
An in conversation tour with Nasby is set for Dec. 11 at 2pm.
For more information visit guelphmuseums.ca.
